10 Bible Verses about Bad Comforter

Job 16:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

Job 21:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”

Job 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Isaiah 51:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,

Psalm 69:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Job 19:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?

Job 8:1-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: “How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, ...

Job 6:14-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty. My brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as torrential streams that pass away, which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself. When they melt, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place. The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste and perish. ...

Job 4:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

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